Europeana enables people to explore the digital resources of Europe's museums, libraries, archives and audio-visual collections. It promotes discovery and networking opportunities in a multilingual space where users can engage, share in and be inspired by the rich diversity of Europe's cultural and scientific heritage.
Europeana enables people to explore the digital resources of Europe's museums, libraries, archives and audio-visual collections. It promotes discovery and networking opportunities in a multilingual space where users can engage, share in and be inspired by the rich diversity of Europe's cultural and scientific heritage.
The Literacy Research Association (LRA) is a community of scholars dedicated to promoting research that enriches the knowledge, understanding, and development of lifespan literacies in a multicultural and multilingual world.
"Share your powerpoint presentations, eLearning content, business presentations and tutorials as engaging talking videos, by using high-quality and multilingual text-to-speech technology, with no need for expensive and time-consuming voice recordings. "
K-12 teachers have long experienced multilingual students code-switching - or simultaneously using more than one language variety - in the classroom...
By requiring all students to demonstrate what they have "learned" in multiple subject areas through standardized tests written in English, and by reducing resources for helping students become multilingual, the U.S. continues to build a wall between our nation and the global community.
For our children's sake, we can't keep promoting the illusion that Americans are so superior to the rest of the world that we can or should insist that our way (language, culture, politics) is the best or only way. Within the context of our current standardized testing culture, common standards reinforce the fallacy that all children *should* learn (and are able to learn) the same things - and to the same level of performance - at a particular age.
The Online Encyclopedia of Writing Systems and Languages
Alphabets and other writing systems
Writing & Speech | Types of writing systems | Abjads | Alphabets | Alphasyllabaries | Syllabaries | Semanto-phonetic scripts | Undeciphered scripts | Alternative scripts | A-Z index | Direction index
Constructed scripts
For natural languages | For conlangs | Phonetic scripts | Adapted scripts | Fictional scripts
Languages
Tips on learning languages | Language-related articles | Celtic languages | Alphabetic index | Index by writing system | Videos Language learning software | Learn Hebrew online
Multilingual pages
Useful phrases | Idioms | Numerals | Numbers | Colours | Kinship terms | Signs | Tongue twisters | Language names | Country names | UDHR | Tower of Babel | Songs
The mission of the International Children's Digital Library Foundation (ICDL Foundation) is to support the world's children in becoming effective members of the global community - who exhibit tolerance and respect for diverse cultures, languages and ideas -- by making the best in children's literature available online free of charge.
A huge collection of projectable childrens books in many different languages. Would be great as a resource for parents to continue L1 development at home or in a mother tongue class
Lingro is really cool. It takes any website or highlighted piece of text and makes every single word clickable. Once you click on the word, it will tel you the definition in more than 11 lanugages!
The coolest dictionary known to hombre! Creates an interactive dictionary from what you are reading, text or web. It remembers all the words you look up so that you can review later.